Russia faces a New Year security nightmare after the second devastating suicide bomb explosion within 24 hours, this time on a rush hour trolley bus in Volgograd.

The latest blast killed at least 14 with 28 wounded, some severely.

A day earlier, an explosion reported as being detonated by a female "black widow" suicide bomber saw 17 killed and dozens wounded in the city's main railway station.

The latest explosion was said by law enforcement officials to have been caused by a man detonating a bomb in a crowded trolley bus packed with early morning commuters.

At least 14 people were killed and 28 wounded in the bombing

'The explosives were detonated by a male suicide bomber, fragments of whose body have been found and sent for DNA testing to identify him,' said Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee, equivalent of the FBI.

'According to preliminary information, the explosive device was the equivalent of at least 4 kg of TNT, and like the explosive device used at the railway station, it was stuffed with metal filings.

It was not immediately clear why he is suspected. The blasts are causing panic in the city, and deep concern all over Russia as people prepare to celebrate the New Year.

'Since both explosive devices contained identical metal filings, this confirms the investigation's theory that two terrorist attacks are linked.'

Security officials today named a suspected perpetrator of the trolley bus explosion as Pavel Pechenkin, from the Volga River republic of Mariy El.....

The Russians are serious people. After the Olympics they will deal with the Saudi motivators and financiers of these jihadists in a definitive manner. This politically correct nonsense that the Wahhabi operating openly and financed by the Saudis can’t be touched will come to an abrupt end.

I dont think they will wait until AFTER the Olympics. Unless things have changed you can expect and immediate and serious response.

I recall cold war stories where some moron group kidnapped a russian to coerce them the way they were doing in other countries, and Russia tossed some of their in-country friends right into a blast furnace (alive). Not a peep out of them after.

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posted on 12/30/2013 6:29:17 AM PST
by Mr. K
(If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)

I was in Moscow when the scum invaded the theater and took hostages. The Russian “authorities” publicly announced that they had been in contact with the families of the terrorists and that they were all ok, “for now”.

Metal FILINGS? Metal dust? Finely powdered metal is sometimes used to augment an explosive, but I have a feeling that what they are trying to describe is steel scrap from a stamping machine or possibly lathe turnings. The individual particles need to be bigger than “filings” for them to act as shrapnel.

You’re ignoring the Sunni/Shia divide when you write that: Russia only has problems with Sunni terrorists. In general, Islamic terrorism is Sunni (Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the various Central Asian terrorist groups, plus the not-actively-terrorist Hizb ut Tahrir, are all Sunni and exist because of the anomie created by the destruction of the Caliphate by the New Turks in the 1920’s). And Sunni terrorism is directed against the whole non-Sunni world, draws upon a much larger population, and (thanks to the Saudis following a “pay and point” strategy in keeping their monarchy from being overthrown) is much better financed.

Shi’ite terrorism, by contrast, is narrowly focused against Israel (Hebzollah in Lebanon) and (thanks to the Shah of Iran having been one of “our bastards” during the Cold War) the U.S.

The bombings in Russia are not blowback from support of Iran. In the long run the terrorists plaguing Russia are also enemies of the Iranian regime since the Iranian regime is Shi’ite.

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posted on 12/30/2013 8:34:34 AM PST
by The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)

Unfortunately, the same applies to the U.S., and in our case, unlike Russia’s, it’s the same breed of dog that’s doing the biting: we backed the Chechens diplomatically for a long time, and went all in on behalf of the Sunni Muslims in the Balkans, first in Bosnia, then in Kosovo, where the KLA had ties to Al Qaeda and was classified as a terrorist organization by the State Department until Madeline Albright decided her personal animus against the Serbs should be the basis for American foreign policy, not to mention keeping the Wahabi monarchy in power in Saudi Arabia. And our thank you notes from Sunni Islam were the Tanzania embassy bombing, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole and 9/11.

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posted on 12/31/2013 10:23:56 AM PST
by The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)

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